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is there any books that i can get from the uni library that will make me look like a pretentious cunt. i want to attract a certain type of female.

thanks in advance.

>> No.3724913

Haha $20 says you're from /sp/

>> No.3724916

>>3724912
You can try some epic poetry, like The Song of Roland, Divide Comedy, Paradise Lost or Faust. Also you can just lurk for a while, /lit/ is infested with elitism so almost everything you can see here is pretentious.

>> No.3724942

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>> No.3724963

>>3724912
>look like a pretentious cunt

You'd want middle brow books.

>> No.3724987

>is there any books that i can get from the uni library that will make me look like a pretentious cunt.

FINNEGANS WAKE

YOU'LL BE AMONGST THE BIGGEST TRY HARD CUNTS ON THE PLANET

>> No.3726914

Finnegan's Wake, Ulysses, Infinite Jest, War & Peace, In Search of Lost Time, any philosophy, try Kant or Sartre

>> No.3726931

>>3726914
>War & Peace
What how does reading that make me prententious. How does reading what Kutuzov ate make me pretentions?

>> No.3726945

>>3726931
I'm not saying any of these books are bad, I want to read all of them eventually, just not in public.
They're those highly regarded yet difficult classics that middle class white kids read more for status than enjoyment

Disclaimer:
I know IJ isn't a classic
W&P isn't difficult in prose but the length is daunting for most

>> No.3726949

>>3726914
>Finnegan's Wake
this, not so much the others mentioned though... well sartre maybe.

>> No.3726952

Noo OP just be yourself, you can't be a pretentious cunt forever, and when she finds out you weren't yourself she won't be interested anymore, if that's the reason she liked you

>> No.3726958

>>3726914
>Finnegan's
>being so pleb you can't even pleb properly

ugh

>> No.3726974

What you really need is some New Yorker-approved recent literature by a writer who isn't a straight white male.

>> No.3726977

>>3726949
are you saying if you saw someone reading DFW in public you wouldn't expect them to be an annoying hipster pseudo intellect?

>> No.3727114

>>3726945
W&P is a lengthy novel for sure. Its one of those books that you put down then come back to after a binge read when things pick up.

>> No.3727142

Anything truly pretentious she wont know. Pick something entry level

>> No.3727146

You should start by describing more precisely what kind of female you want to attract. There are way more than fifty shades of pretentious.

>> No.3727182

Infinite Jest. Like 95% of people buy this just to carry it around in public and talk about how they're "not quite finished yet (meaning they made all the way to the first eclipse symbol)" but it has already "totally changed their lives!"

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3727206

Pretentious isn't one dimensional

On that note, pick any book by bret easton elis that isn't american psycho